cousins

We got to meet baby Evelyn (Jon and Joss's baby), and my kids were in heaven! Dan took her newborn pictures up in our bedroom, and they turned out so cute!!

my baby is HUGE compared to 1.5 week old Evie!

We had Josh's family come and stay a night at our house, and again... our kids were in heaven playing with them. All the kids played dress ups, hide n seek, cards, art, movie night, and a bunk bed sleepover!

^^I'm sure i took a better picture than this of them all dressed up haha. But little Georgia is even in a little mermaid dress up... and lexi in a 5T mermaid outfit. :)

^^notice how many feet are piled on poor Avary! haha

A very christmasy scene in March.

hanging with papa on one of our day trips to idaho

a bit outside

We took a quick day trip to Provo to hang out with friends and to also run a few errands. Well Dan ended up having the car for A LOT longer than planned, so I hauled these 3 (carrier included because we were at a friends house and they needed to head out of town, so I had that and no stroller) to the park and around the streets where we used to hang out. It was so sad seeing our cute little house! Stori cried about it, and Sylvie was angry that someone had stolen our house and demanded we go talk to them to get it back. :) 

Luckily it was almost 60* that day because I was outside for about 2 hours waiting for dan.

then the very next day we had 2 inches of snow fall in our current backyard. We made the "Greatest Snowman," for the radford family snowman. They were apx. 3" tall.

Sadly that was the best snowman we could make this year. I shouldn't say "sadly," though, because we have loved not having snow haha.

first week in harrisville

our first week in harrisville was 2 months ago, but I just realized that this blog post was in my draft file. I wanted to get a picture of us in front of our house before I posted it, but we never got around to that. I still have hopes it will happen though.
the day we moved in was 56* and sunny. We thought that moving in the middle of January would be so awful with snow and frigid temps, but that wasn't the case this winter. in fact, we got to play at the park and go on bike rides when i needed a break from organizing and cleaning.

^^behind Stori, and in front of the beautiful mountains, is our cute tiny little townhouse....the one with the van in front.

we live in the semi-country...its a small town outside of a big town. Which we all love. We enjoy being minutes from shopping...and In-n-Out! ;)


Our little home is 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath. plus a garage!! which is a huge benefit...especially if winter actually comes next year.

I need to update these pictures for sure! Dan and I made some shelves that go on the wall where all the those empty boxes are.

And i need to update this room too. now we have a cute little mid-century couch and orange chair. WE also have a bigger rug, moved the ottoman and rocking chair upstairs, and put away the pac n play that I had up for georgia to play in while i cleaned. :)

Here's a picture of our front door, with the CUTEST first grader! she is such a brave, beautiful, smart little thing. Seriously so smart!

She's made some good friends here and loves her teacher. She said the hardest part of first grade is multiplying teen numbers! (I still can't do that without a calculator, and she is only 6)! she makes sure to ask for help in her prayers each night. in her reading tests each week, she is at least 3x's above the class average. I hope the math portion doesn't discourage her.

When we only have one car, we get to take daddy to work...then hit up target!

The dad of all dads! he was born to be the dad to little girls!

We've had to do quick little day trips to idaho several times, but this time was particularly fun! 14 miles from home, our serpentine belt snapped. So we pulled off in Brigham City and spent the next 4 hours waiting for them to fix our car. We saw many blessings though; we were originally going to leave at 1am after picking up my niece at the train station, but waited until first thing in the morning, dan had just sold his gun and it covered the cost of the repair, and beautiful Brigham City cost so much less to fix than anywhere else. So glad it happened when and where it did. Especially since it could have happened to me while driving dan to work on the interstate. I would have been alone with 3 girls, stranded on the busy road!

walking around the tabernacle with 2 of my girls, trying to make the hours go by faster

All in all, we love this beautiful new place we live in! I will make sure to take updated pictures.

Famous

Or more appropriately INFAMOUS...

I got a text from Carmen, dans brothers girlfriend, telling me she was scrolling through Reddit (I know it's a social media app, but I don't know how it works at all) and saw the video clip of dan catching Stori from a hay bail and knocking over Sylvie. It got 1.2 million views that day and was in the top 5 trending videos. Haha I don't know how it got in there, but man the comments were horrible! Apparently dan is an awful father and should be in prison for abuse. There were thousands and thousands of comments, and so many of them were full of F words, and "doctors" saying that Sylvie was concussed. Haha Sylvie was perfectly safe and got right back up. I just couldn't believe that many people had time to comment on something so insignificant to their personal life. But then again, It was pretty entertaining...and that's why "the mom couldn't stop recording to even save her own kid." 

And I don't have that clip handy to share again (it's on my YouTube, but I can't remember my login and such) but here is more reckless parenting with dan and Sylvie from 3 years ago. "spider sylvie."

Georgia the 10 month old

*This girl is finally on the move! The second we set her down, she is doing her weird crawl-like thing. she doesn't use both feet to crawl, but she uses her left leg as the crawler, and then sweeps her right leg under her. I think she does that so that she can sit on her bum easier once she gets to her destination. So we have made a barricade in our living room of all our furniture... and we have to sweep the floor every couple of hours because she is in that awful stage of putting every tiny thing in her mouth.
*She is a great sleeper. She goes to bed at 7:30pm and then we wake her up at 7:45am so that we can drive dan to work. Then she naps from 10am-12:30 and then 3-4:30/5. All I do is give her her binky, blankey, and her bunny. Say nigh nigh and she goes to bed.
*She loves food. Her favorites are avocado, cottage cheese, yogurt, bran muffins, eggs, plain cheerios, and pretty much anything we eat. She is still young enough that she will eat anything I think. She will shake her head "no" when she is done eating. I have added one bottle of formula to her diet. hoping that will help her gain some weight--she's a petite little thing.
*She loves to blow kisses, clap, tell us what the duck, dog, and cow will say, and LOVEs it when we open the blinds and say, "it's a beautiful day." she giggles and says, "uhhhhdaaay." when we are lucky, there will be a dog out our back yard and she will squeal and try to make a doggy sound.
*She also LOVES when she sees her daddy. Man does she get excited. Same with her sisters, but mostly to that ol' daddy these days.
*She loves to dance to all music (especially the Greatest Showman).
*She doesn't love to be tickled at all, and doesn't love to be in the sky and dropped down anymore. She also isn't as cuddly as our other babies, but will definitely let us hold her. It will be interesting to see how her personality develops.
Love this cute little thing so dang much.

Last days in Idaho

Man oh man, was this such a roller coaster move for our kids. They would be SO excited to move back to utah and mountains, then 5 minutes later they were sobbing because they didn't want to move away from family and their friends. Sylvie was more on board with the move, but Stori took a bit of convincing. I think I may have even promised them a horse if they became happy about the move. ;)
They really did have such great friends in Idaho, but since we have been in Harrisville, they have already started to make new best friends. Such good little kiddos.
Sylvie's teacher sent me this picture of her on her last day of preschool. she also sent home a note for sylvie telling her how much she loved having her in class and what a good friend she was to everyone. Sylvie loved her princess academy!!

I surprised Stori on her last day of class by taking sugar cookies to share with all the kids. Her face when she saw me in class was priceless! I think she felt like a movie star handing out those cookies. She introduced me to all of her friends and giggled so much. It was really cute to see what good little friends they all were in there.
We didn't get a picture of her with all her friends, but Shiloh and Aurora made it into one of them.
This is her cute teacher, Mrs. Killian. She was the best. She texted me the day before we moved and offered to have her husband come and help us load stuff in the moving trailer. And since moving to Utah, she has texted stori two different times, telling her that she misses her and checking up on her new teacher.

Ok, this next picture is so heartbreaking---I have a similar picture of her like this in my photo library, but I couldn't make myself post it because it was too sad. Huge tears and red splotchy face from crying so much. So here's the story about this sad stori....
The last day of school, her friend Aurora invited her to her house for her sisters bday party. It lasted 3 hours and when I came to get her, Stori, Aurora, and Shiloh were all huddled sitting down in a circle SOBBING uncontrollably...I couldn't even get Stori to stand up she was crying so hard. So dramatic, but also so very sweet. Her friend Aurora told me  (through sobbing breaths) that "Stori was her best friend that always played with her and that she was the dearest friend she had ever made." how dang cute is that. I tried to tell Stori that she was lucky enough to have found such good friends that it made saying goodbye so hard. Such a sweet tender little thing. In this picture, she had grabbed the iPad and put on "remember me" from coco....the words to that song are so sad, so she cried through the whole thing haha.

packing frantically because we had found a place that would let us move in 3 weeks sooner than we had planned. These two were no help at all haha.

hahaha dan and his tennis shoes at church. In all the haste to pack, I packed his church shoes. I also packed all of my clothes and shoes, so I wore my moms church dress, tights, and boots. good thing we are the same size! ha.

These are just some 1st grade things we got from her teacher. The little report card is fun to see. Stori made her AR goal of reading 20 points within the first week of being assigned. She technically had until March 1st to get it done, but on the weekends she would choose to read books and take tests, so she got them done so fast. Her teacher told me that she had 40 puts when most kids still have 15-20. She read a total of 80 books from October-January, and even got to the point that she could finish a chapter book in one day. Such a good little girl who loves to learn.